Month: June 2017

I commenced a four year degree at the University of Queensland in 1962, having successfully obtained a Commonwealth Scholarship, which paid student fees and a means tested living away from home allowance. UQ commenced the physiotherapy degree program in the early 1950s in parallel with a three year Diploma course that commenced in 1938. Our[…]

I arrived at the Women’s College in 1962. Having lived with two quiet adults, I now had to adjust to slamming doors, loud radios, and heavy footsteps down corridors. Freshers settled in during Orientation Week, but when the older students returned, the Fresher System came into play. As the junior residents, freshers were expected to[…]

While exchanging origins with a friend recently, I happened to remark that it was because of Hitler that I happened to be in Brisbane. I had to clarify immediately that I was no follower of the Fuhrer, rather that circumstances were responsible, and my debt to Hitler is indirect. Let me explain. My birth was[…]